1) When did you start watching tennis?
3) Which match do you consider as best of all time?
4) What’s your favourite match of Roger and who is the opponent you enjoy to see him play against the most?
5) Who would you like to see as a coach for Roger?
6) What are your best and worst characteristic traits?
7) What are your best childhood memories?
8) What’s your philosophy of life?
9) Do you have any quirks?
10) Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
11) When have you been the most disappointed about a loss of Roger?
12) What was a strange idea you had as a kid of the idea of growing up?

Spending time with your children and not being a wage slave at some soulless corporation or government bureaucracy sounds like hell. Haven't we progressed beyond the idea that it is in loving relationships with other people that we find fulfillment and meaning? Climbing the corporate ladder is essential in the pursuit of happiness.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Oracle

Match Point Novak needs to be immortalized in sculpture, like Michelangelo's David. I'm sure that once he's gone to tennis Valhalla, his statue will have his stones as the focal point of attention, and tennis fans will make a meccan-like pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime, in order to rub those lucky stones, like the budda's belly.

That will be the last victory of Rafa for quite some time.. With his joke mentality and pathetic game, I hope the disgusting player loses every single match next season. He's disgraceful. He should just retire. He's a joke.

Well, first and foremost, I strongly believe in the conservative principles upon which our country was founded. Admittedly, there's a sort of paradoxical discomfort that comes along with being resigned to using terms such as 'conservatism' or 'liberalism', especially given that both terms have been bastardized, particularly within the United States.

I would make the argument that Republicans are in fact, according to definition, the progenitor of liberal ideology. Moreover, I can't help but find myself being amused at the idea of branding a party which was founded by abolitionists as "conservative" or "retrograde" -- as some have claimed.

In terms of fiscal and social issues, I genuinely believe that Republicans embrace a philosophy which is conducive to freedom, inasmuch as there is nothing more liberating than the idea of eliminating needless constraints in the form of excessive taxation and over-regulation which serve merely as shackles and insurmountable barriers which impede the evolution and success of free citizens.

In addition, solutions rooted in the free market system have proven themselves to be more effective than government expansion by means of central planning, which has less to do with entrepreneurship and more with delegating absolute power to unscrupulous bureaucrats.

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Originally Posted by Clydey

What, in your opinion, has been the biggest contribution to the world, whether it be a concept or an invention?

Adam Smith - The father of free-market capitalism.
Niccolò Machiavelli - A strategic mastermind, Machiavellianism has saved mankind from itself.

1) When did you start watching tennis? 1990
3) Which match do you consider as best of all time? Ashe Defeats Connors to become Wimbledon champ.
4) What’s your favourite match of Roger and who is the opponent you enjoy to see him play against the most? I most certainly enjoyed seeing him absolutely dismantle Hewitt to capture his 1st US Open title.
5) Who would you like to see as a coach for Roger? Tony Roche.
6) What are your best and worst characteristic traits? Obsessive-compulsive, pessimistic, irritable. Comprehensive, idealistic, empathetic.
7) What are your best childhood memories? Winter ski trips to Lombardia.
8) What’s your philosophy of life? Just make it up as you go along.
9) Do you have any quirks? Yes, I have the tendency to talk with my hands.
10) Where do you see yourself in 10 years? I try not to make predictions, as such is a bad omen. I'll leave the prophecies to the likes of Nostradamus.
11) When have you been the most disappointed about a loss of Roger? Australian Open, SF defeat to Safin.
12) What was a strange idea you had as a kid of the idea of growing up ? I can't recall.

Huh? Murray reached his first slam final at the 12th attempt. Federer took 18 attempts. So what if Murray only has 1 slam final? He got there quicker than Roger. He didn't have the good fortune to play a Mark Phillipousis in his first GS final, though.

how different would you character be now if you had lived in Italy all these years?

Well, I've found that with the exception of political ideology, I have more in common with Europeans than Americans. So I'd have to say nothing would be different. I'm really not all that Americanized.

Huh? Murray reached his first slam final at the 12th attempt. Federer took 18 attempts. So what if Murray only has 1 slam final? He got there quicker than Roger. He didn't have the good fortune to play a Mark Phillipousis in his first GS final, though.